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Photographer Takes Portraits Of Babies Seconds After Birth
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These photos of newborn infants by photographer Christian Berthelot taken mere seconds after their C-section deliveries may be difficult for some of our readers to look at, but that’s the point. His “Cesar” photo series shows us a raw and unflinching image of childbirth, discarding the usual blankets and ribbons for the blood and vernix that accompanied all of us when we were born.

When I saw [my son] for the first time, he was bloodied and covered in this white substance called vernix,” Berthelot told Huffpost “He was like a warrior who has just won his first battle, like an angel out of darkness.” It is from this perspective that his photos, while difficult to look at, gain a deeper and more beautiful meaning.

Fore more details about this gripping photo series, read on between the images. His series will be on display at the Circulation(s) festival in Paris until March 5th.

More info: christianberthelot.com | festival-circulations.com (h/t: huffpost, slate)

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    Christian Berthelot’s interest in childbirth photography grew after he witnessed the birth of his own son.

    Liza – 3 seconds after birth

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    With the help of Jean-Francois Morievnal, a doctor at the hospital where his son was born, he began the training required to allow him to take photos in the operating room.

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    Only after 6 months of training did he start looking for expectant mothers who would allow him to photograph the birth of their children.

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    To date, Berthelot and Morievnal have photographer 40 C-section deliveries

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    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

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    Dovas

    Dovas

    Author, Community member

    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

    What do you think ?
    LynneTessier
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, incredible

    KristinaReznikova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wander what future they have ahead... And how the the photographer placed the light setup(as a photographer I wonder :D)

    SophieShaw
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm guessing he had an off camera flash set up, allowing him to use a fast enough shutter to darken the rest of the room/illuminate baby.

    Load More Replies...
    InaMacLeod
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    glorious life in all its messy grandeur! <3 Love this.

    CrackrJax
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very cool!! It's interesting how some of them are somewhat calm, while others are freaking the hell out. Future characteristics! :)

    EdwinWiekens
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    amazing!!! I would also like to share my short pregnancy video morph: http://photed.com/wordpress/kedde/

    LaurieKnight
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I enjoyed your video morph. Your wife and child are beautiful! Congratulations!

    Load More Replies...
    KellyBarker
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what it should look like a mess and bloody not all clean like they do for TV or a movie.

    DavidL.
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, when they're born the usual way, it's a lot less bloody

    Load More Replies...
    LeahGibbon
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Newborn babies are simultaneously the cutest and the grossest things ever. Beauty.

    Bobcatthing
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    :O no offence, but they kinda look like aliens. so i looked like an alien. o_o

    KarungiDaphne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They look so cute. Reminded me of mine when I had just given birth to her.

    CandiceLozano
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The darkness gives the photos a grim twist...

    MartinW
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, take a pic of the afterbirth its a fighter too [eye roll]

    MimiGreenberg
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The miracle of birth is neither cute nor cuddly.

    AilswithBarrueto
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love them!!! Stunning images of life!

    carolinemerald
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Outstanding -- amazing how the individual character of each newborn is unique - beautifully captured When older they'll value these pics

    ElizabethAnne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy crow :> it's completely graphic, but at the same time it illustrates the beauty of life and a new born babies first moments in our worl

    KarungiDaphne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FYI the person below who commented as me is my workmate Jackie, i have no kids yet...

    Kieleenterprise
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    come check this out https://www.boredpanda.com/here-are-35-of-the-most-satisfying-things-that-have-ever-happened-but-i-cant-explain-why/

    StephanieMendoza
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was surprised to see how bloody they were. I have two boys both c-sections and they were nice and clean when they came out. I remember the doctors commenting on it but i made nothing of it. It was strange seeing how bloody they usually come out but beautiful non the less.

    LeenMassy
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautifull, especially because of the black background -http://diep-rood-leen.blogspot.be/2013/07/twee-meisjes.html

    JeremyClayton
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gutsy ( pardon the pun ) , but the colours of life !

    DeannaCrabtree
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BEAUTIFUL.....NOTHING LIKE THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH....THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE JOY OF LIFE...

    CarolSlover
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they were beautiful!!

    JoyGarrett-Sonney
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So beautiful. What a miricle birth is.

    GabriellaLengyel
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes,looking at the photographis gives me a breathtaking feeling

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow....so beautiful! Incredible images. I remember my babies with "stuff" all over them still from being born and it was so amazing. ♡♡♡

    VeronikaVidlakova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i really prefer a home birth even though i don't have a picture of my baby born seconds after his birth because there was no one to take it

    VeronikaVidlakova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh it looks like from some other planet! So much plastic, so many strangers with masks on their faces, the scissors.. brrr..

    KornelijaToth
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't du this! It isn't to Facebook or something like this! It is horrible to you baby

    ColleenOneill-Schleich
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this project a lot. I would love to see a series of water birth babies/home births as well. I think that would be truly beautiful.

    KathyIrwin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So completely lovely. Thank you!

    MartinW
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "my baby is a warrior" blah blah blah, GMAFB Unless he grows up to be a serial killer Nothing impressive about the pics, afterbirth next?

    NatashaZhukova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looking at these photos made me realize that birth looks as ugly, painful, bloody and messy as death. That's what I feel looking at them.

    ChilliGal
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonderful pictures. Birth is an amazing procedure and, for a photographer to be allowed to be present, is a rare privilege.

    FeliciaMaisey
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is something very beautiful about birth, but I really do not like the photos; such trauma in a newly birthed child's face is sad.

    MarceloLaguna
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    fotografia en clabe baja..las mejores

    amsel
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe it's because i really really don't like baby's but to me they look like bleeding half death horror creatures :C

    Stephen.E.Sims
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was there for all my three childrens births..Amazing and Emotional

    LeannBennett
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aww, they all look like cute little zombie babies! (: Is this bad that I think that? Well, I don't care.

    JairoSánchez
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful pictures. A birth is a miracle of life.

    RosemaryTurpin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, some people appear to be so fond of blood and violence and Zombies as entertainment - these photos should suit them to a "T"!

    Cookie101
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brings back great memories.

    CindyScott
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never had a baby, never will,, these are so beautiful!! Thank you!!

    Ant1
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My both children were born without any blood... experiences are all different.

    IreneRussak
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is wonderful but horrific at the same time. Looks like stills from a horror movie O_O

    SusannaVesna
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish the photographer used some warmer filters, the babies look scary pale. These photos have NOT encouraged me to give birth...

    ExpertaNovata
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Está muy bien reflejada la horrorosa experiencia que sufre el niño. This perfectly reflects the horrific experience the baby suffers.

    GailFewson
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it. Saw a c section in India, it was amazing.

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude where was this person when my kids were born I'd have LOVED pics like this

    MargaritaRamónIrrazábal
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    surreal! and that is people a few seconds of a new life welcome to mother earth :)

    AliceKonash
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The zombie baby in Dawn of the Dead is coming to mind.

    TheodoreElperro
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do like how c-section babies don't have their heads all smushed in. :) Mine was evidently biscuit-shaped when I came out.

    TheodoreElperro
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think the light was like that in the room; I think it was done in processing (i.e. Photoshop). I love it.

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes me wonder the ratio of how many of us enter the world bloody to how many of us also leave the world bloody...

    AmyJones
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find it odd how people can be aloud to take photos of people's newborns its like "oh wow i just went through pain to wait" i mean its a be

    SpazztazleahDukes
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that's beautiful and just awww lol I took pictures of my niece seconds after she came into the world

    NataliaDawidowicz
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The light, the settings... I'm thinking of Carravagio paintings. Love it.

    victoriaranne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my boys were born by caesarian I was still under anaesthetic and missed the moments like these.I could however possibly died otherwise

    JohnThompson
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have wanted to do this for a while, this has only served to inspire me. Nice work

    Katiejreed
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think maybe I'll never have kids after seeing this haha... yikes

    EwaAgami
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I thought after being present at several births... But when it's your own it's different. You don't care about the blood at all!

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    RosannaAlvaro-Goncalves
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All newborn babies look the same. I wish I have done this with my 2 children. Beautiful and Genius!

    RebeccaRoushBellefeuille
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely beautiful! The miracle of birth has always amazed me

    amyamy
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg that looks horrific. I always thought that c section babies would look more normal...but they are so bloody and all this white stuff!

    MonikaŚwięcka
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is sick ..... At birth, there is nothing beautiful

    RosemaryTurpin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I appreciate that they were all cleaned up and blankets and bows added within minutes, but I fail to see any beauty in these!

    SuzanneZu
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this describes how stressful is the birth for the child. No smile, no positive energy. Thats why I want to bring the baby to water in nature

    SophieShaw
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The stress of the child is due to the pain of inhaling o2 through it's lungs for the first time; crying at birth = adjusting to breathing.

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    LynneTessier
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, incredible

    KristinaReznikova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wander what future they have ahead... And how the the photographer placed the light setup(as a photographer I wonder :D)

    SophieShaw
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm guessing he had an off camera flash set up, allowing him to use a fast enough shutter to darken the rest of the room/illuminate baby.

    Load More Replies...
    InaMacLeod
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    glorious life in all its messy grandeur! <3 Love this.

    CrackrJax
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very cool!! It's interesting how some of them are somewhat calm, while others are freaking the hell out. Future characteristics! :)

    EdwinWiekens
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    amazing!!! I would also like to share my short pregnancy video morph: http://photed.com/wordpress/kedde/

    LaurieKnight
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I enjoyed your video morph. Your wife and child are beautiful! Congratulations!

    Load More Replies...
    KellyBarker
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what it should look like a mess and bloody not all clean like they do for TV or a movie.

    DavidL.
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, when they're born the usual way, it's a lot less bloody

    Load More Replies...
    LeahGibbon
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Newborn babies are simultaneously the cutest and the grossest things ever. Beauty.

    Bobcatthing
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    :O no offence, but they kinda look like aliens. so i looked like an alien. o_o

    KarungiDaphne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They look so cute. Reminded me of mine when I had just given birth to her.

    CandiceLozano
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The darkness gives the photos a grim twist...

    MartinW
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, take a pic of the afterbirth its a fighter too [eye roll]

    MimiGreenberg
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The miracle of birth is neither cute nor cuddly.

    AilswithBarrueto
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love them!!! Stunning images of life!

    carolinemerald
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Outstanding -- amazing how the individual character of each newborn is unique - beautifully captured When older they'll value these pics

    ElizabethAnne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy crow :> it's completely graphic, but at the same time it illustrates the beauty of life and a new born babies first moments in our worl

    KarungiDaphne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FYI the person below who commented as me is my workmate Jackie, i have no kids yet...

    Kieleenterprise
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    come check this out https://www.boredpanda.com/here-are-35-of-the-most-satisfying-things-that-have-ever-happened-but-i-cant-explain-why/

    StephanieMendoza
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was surprised to see how bloody they were. I have two boys both c-sections and they were nice and clean when they came out. I remember the doctors commenting on it but i made nothing of it. It was strange seeing how bloody they usually come out but beautiful non the less.

    LeenMassy
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautifull, especially because of the black background -http://diep-rood-leen.blogspot.be/2013/07/twee-meisjes.html

    JeremyClayton
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gutsy ( pardon the pun ) , but the colours of life !

    DeannaCrabtree
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BEAUTIFUL.....NOTHING LIKE THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH....THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE JOY OF LIFE...

    CarolSlover
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they were beautiful!!

    JoyGarrett-Sonney
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So beautiful. What a miricle birth is.

    GabriellaLengyel
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes,looking at the photographis gives me a breathtaking feeling

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow....so beautiful! Incredible images. I remember my babies with "stuff" all over them still from being born and it was so amazing. ♡♡♡

    VeronikaVidlakova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i really prefer a home birth even though i don't have a picture of my baby born seconds after his birth because there was no one to take it

    VeronikaVidlakova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh it looks like from some other planet! So much plastic, so many strangers with masks on their faces, the scissors.. brrr..

    KornelijaToth
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't du this! It isn't to Facebook or something like this! It is horrible to you baby

    ColleenOneill-Schleich
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this project a lot. I would love to see a series of water birth babies/home births as well. I think that would be truly beautiful.

    KathyIrwin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So completely lovely. Thank you!

    MartinW
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "my baby is a warrior" blah blah blah, GMAFB Unless he grows up to be a serial killer Nothing impressive about the pics, afterbirth next?

    NatashaZhukova
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looking at these photos made me realize that birth looks as ugly, painful, bloody and messy as death. That's what I feel looking at them.

    ChilliGal
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonderful pictures. Birth is an amazing procedure and, for a photographer to be allowed to be present, is a rare privilege.

    FeliciaMaisey
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is something very beautiful about birth, but I really do not like the photos; such trauma in a newly birthed child's face is sad.

    MarceloLaguna
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    fotografia en clabe baja..las mejores

    amsel
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe it's because i really really don't like baby's but to me they look like bleeding half death horror creatures :C

    Stephen.E.Sims
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was there for all my three childrens births..Amazing and Emotional

    LeannBennett
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aww, they all look like cute little zombie babies! (: Is this bad that I think that? Well, I don't care.

    JairoSánchez
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful pictures. A birth is a miracle of life.

    RosemaryTurpin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, some people appear to be so fond of blood and violence and Zombies as entertainment - these photos should suit them to a "T"!

    Cookie101
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brings back great memories.

    CindyScott
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never had a baby, never will,, these are so beautiful!! Thank you!!

    Ant1
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My both children were born without any blood... experiences are all different.

    IreneRussak
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is wonderful but horrific at the same time. Looks like stills from a horror movie O_O

    SusannaVesna
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish the photographer used some warmer filters, the babies look scary pale. These photos have NOT encouraged me to give birth...

    ExpertaNovata
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Está muy bien reflejada la horrorosa experiencia que sufre el niño. This perfectly reflects the horrific experience the baby suffers.

    GailFewson
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it. Saw a c section in India, it was amazing.

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude where was this person when my kids were born I'd have LOVED pics like this

    MargaritaRamónIrrazábal
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    surreal! and that is people a few seconds of a new life welcome to mother earth :)

    AliceKonash
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The zombie baby in Dawn of the Dead is coming to mind.

    TheodoreElperro
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do like how c-section babies don't have their heads all smushed in. :) Mine was evidently biscuit-shaped when I came out.

    TheodoreElperro
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think the light was like that in the room; I think it was done in processing (i.e. Photoshop). I love it.

    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes me wonder the ratio of how many of us enter the world bloody to how many of us also leave the world bloody...

    AmyJones
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find it odd how people can be aloud to take photos of people's newborns its like "oh wow i just went through pain to wait" i mean its a be

    SpazztazleahDukes
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that's beautiful and just awww lol I took pictures of my niece seconds after she came into the world

    NataliaDawidowicz
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The light, the settings... I'm thinking of Carravagio paintings. Love it.

    victoriaranne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my boys were born by caesarian I was still under anaesthetic and missed the moments like these.I could however possibly died otherwise

    JohnThompson
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have wanted to do this for a while, this has only served to inspire me. Nice work

    Katiejreed
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think maybe I'll never have kids after seeing this haha... yikes

    EwaAgami
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I thought after being present at several births... But when it's your own it's different. You don't care about the blood at all!

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    RosannaAlvaro-Goncalves
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All newborn babies look the same. I wish I have done this with my 2 children. Beautiful and Genius!

    RebeccaRoushBellefeuille
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely beautiful! The miracle of birth has always amazed me

    amyamy
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg that looks horrific. I always thought that c section babies would look more normal...but they are so bloody and all this white stuff!

    MonikaŚwięcka
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is sick ..... At birth, there is nothing beautiful

    RosemaryTurpin
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I appreciate that they were all cleaned up and blankets and bows added within minutes, but I fail to see any beauty in these!

    SuzanneZu
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this describes how stressful is the birth for the child. No smile, no positive energy. Thats why I want to bring the baby to water in nature

    SophieShaw
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The stress of the child is due to the pain of inhaling o2 through it's lungs for the first time; crying at birth = adjusting to breathing.

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